webforms and 3000 lines of codebehind I’ve noticed that the common failures while using asp.net webforms is related to people getting confused about the asp.net page and control life cycle. Since there are so many different events to keep in mind, it’s easy to place code in the wrong place and get something that sort of works (but does not work in all cases). If you are stressed, you might add a small if statement to fix this problem in the special case, increasing complexity in the code behind file. This[...]

I’ve had some trouble installing gems on windows instances using bundle install. I had this problem first at ~2009. The problem is missing certificates. While this fix is correct, a quick and dirty approach is to make sure that your gem files have source http instead of https: # A sample Gemfile source "http://rubygems.org" gem 'albacore' gem 'nuget_helper' This means that the communication to download gems from rubygems is not private.

After installing OS X El Capitan on my computer I noticed that fsharp interactive failed to start because it failed to locate mono: /Library/Frameworks/Mono.framework/Versions/4.0.4/bin/fsharpi: line 24: exec: mono: not found Session termination detected. Press Enter to restart. If we look at the file at that position we find that it assumes that mono is in the path. I checked /etc/paths, and it looked correct (i.e. based on the paths file, mono should have been in the path): mathieu$ which mono /usr[...]

I tried implementing the same customer service xml api that I’ve implemented in sinatra, rails, c# webhandler, nancy etc. I was pleasently surprised how easy it is to get it up and running. There is a story for how you write tests: TestServer, that you install by referencing Microsoft.Owin.Testing. Previous times that I’ve tried using Owin on mono, there has been some problems getting it to run (I think it was something related to a missing dll). Now it works fine. :) You can find the code here: Customer[...]

Instead of using: $:.unshift File.dirname(__FILE__) to add a folder to the path, a better way inside your ruby code is to use: require_relative 'subfolder/file' in order to require files. You can also use a relative path in require (i.e. ‘./subfolder/file’).